Outlining the Rape Evidence Facing Bill Cosby and NFL Punishment of Adrian Peterson

Defense attorney Mike Cavalluzzi and former FBI criminal profiler Jim Clemente take an in-depth look into the timeline of the increasing rape allegations against beloved actor/comedian Bill Cosby.

“If he committed crimes, then he’s a criminal, that’s what he is,” Clemente said of the image of “America’s father” being tarnished by the latest allegations against Cosby. “He’s not evil, he’s not anything more than a criminal - but unfortunately, we all looked up to him.”

It is pointed out that this “beloved American icon” enjoyed that squeaky-clean image for most of his career – including through the years of the hit TV series The Cosby Show and A Different World - until he was about 60 years old, when

The first bit of negative publicity for Cosby came in 1997, when allegations surfaced that he had carried on an affair in the 1970s that might have produced a daughter.

Then in 2000 came the first allegations of sexual assault, which led to a lawsuit in 2005 by a woman who was the first to sue the comedian and appeared to be credible in her allegations.

“I think she also had a couple of other credible victims who were going to testify in that lawsuit,” Clemente noted. It turns out that she had a list of 12 other women – one was named and the others anonymous - who were making similar allegations against Cosby.

“And this has to do with saying they were plied with alcohol and drugs, that they passed out, and awoke in some sort of sexually compromising position,” Cavalluzzi said.

“What you would do is interview them all separately, and drill down into the details,” Clemente said about the way an investigator would have to assess all the various allegations to determine their credibility.

“This is an issue with sex crimes in general. Because of the inherent inability of victims to come forward, be believed and have addressed when it happens – they are ashamed, they feel guilty, they feel embarrassed, they feel like they’re weak against a powerful icon – so they don’t disclose.”

Clemente said a defendant can run into serious problems when there are many separate accusations that keep adding up and each of the claims includes significant details about the alleged attacks.

“Criminal behavior analysts look at this kind of detail… those kinds of details are the things we typically see – and researchers in all genres see – in truthful recounted memories as opposed to made up memories.”

In this case, Clemente said the overwhelming number of allegations - coupled with the details descriptions being provided by the women - make it unlikely that all of the alleged victims are lying.

“The fact that we have now at least 15 different women who’ve come forward to say theses things, if you look down at the details – they’re all giving those kinds of details – I think it’s ridiculous to think that they all suffer from that same delusion that they are misinterpreting something that happened that was innocent.”

Watch the full episode for more in-depth coverage of the Cosby timeline, as well as an update on the case involving alleged child abuse by NFL star Adrian Peterson.